We already made a short video of this process but I would like to also post a blog on here to show my individual understanding of the process as well. This is mostly about the contraction and relaxation of the muscles and what goes on inside the body. Inside the muscle fibers are the sarcomeres and they help with contraction of the muscles in the skeleton. When the muscle contracts the sarcomeres do not change length like you would thnk, instead they simply slide past each other. In our video it is shown as the two forks and the match box. Instead of the fork pokers(I do not know the correct term for them)bending into the match box,them simply slide past them fitting in almost perfect fashion.The fork pokers do slighty overlaap each other but they do not change in length by any means. As the muscle relaxes the forks or sarcomeres are pulled away from the match box and are slid back to their resting spot. Working almost like a machine the muscle is able to smoothly flex and relax.
This is a different example than the one we used in our video but it is explaining the same thing. As you can see instead of the sarcomere(fingers) changing length the simply just slide through each other and stay the same length. Going back to the start of this blog i didnt go all the way through the process of the sliding filament model because it can be explained in the video I helped create. Hopefully this blog does somewhat show my knowledge of the Sliding Filament Model
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